What is the best memory from childhood?
I have a lot of great memories. (Chuckles.) We played sports–football or baseball–in the street every single day after school. And we had two recesses plus a lunch period every day and we’d play sports at school every day. When you were in the third and fourth grade, you didn’t. But in fifth and sixth grade, you did. You played softball or football. You chose up sides and you played on those sides every day. We did a lot of fun things. When I was in the fifth grade, everybody was into knights, King Arthur of the Round Table. We all had swords and shields. My stepfather got some pressed wood, cut it out, and made me a real shield. He put straps on the back. I had a plywood sword. One of my friends and I went and fought a duel against two other kids in the neighborhood, but their fathers had made them plywood shields. (Chuckles.) We were whacking at each other’s shields. My sword would hit his shield and it would bounce off. His sword would hit my shield and it was making a dent in my sh
